Chapter XIII

ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.

Effect of the Press -- Restrictions upon it before and after the
Restoration -- Licensing Acts -- Political Writings checked by
the Judges -- Instances of illegal Proclamations not numerous --
Juries fined for Verdicts -- Question of their Right to return a
General Verdict -- Habeas Corpus Act passed -- Differences
between Lords and Commons -- Judicial Powers of the Lords
historically traced -- Their Pretensions about the Time of the
Restoration -- Resistance made by the Commons -- Dispute about
their original Jurisdiction -- And that in Appeals from Courts of
Equity -- Question of the exclusive Right of the Commons as to
Money-bills -- Its History -- The Right extended farther -- State
of the Upper House under the Tudors and Stuarts -- Augmentation
of the Temporal Lords -- State of the Commons -- Increase of
their Members -- Question as to Rights of Election -- Four
different Theories as to the Original Principle -- Their
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